Notable women in history : the lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history / by Willis J. Abbot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbot, Willis J. (Willis John), 1863-1934.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO): Women: Transnational Networks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography.

Women.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 unnumbered pages, 448 pages, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, portraits.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pa. : J.C. Winston Co., 1913.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Agrippina : a wicked woman, a devoted mother

Aspasia : the inspiration of Pericles

Cornelia : mother of the Gracchi

Cleopatra : the world's most famous beauty

Hypatia : the female philosopher of Alexandria

Empress Theodora : the great empress of the East

Zenobia : the empress of Palmyra

Katherine of Aragon : heroine of the most famous divorce

Anne Boleyn : a martyred queen of Henry VIII

Mary Tudor : "Bloody Mary," the maker of martyrs

Mary Queen of Scots : a victim of her own intrigues

Lady Jane Grey : a nine days' queen

Queen Anne : commonplace queen of a majestic era

Queen Elizabeth : "Good Queen Bess," "The Virgin Queen"

Catherine II of Russia : the Semiramis of the North

Queen Christina of Sweden : a royal wanderer in Europe

Isabella of Castile : the financier of Columbus' great voyage

Maria Theresa of Austria : the true founder of the Austrian empire

Marie Antoinette : the diamond necklace and the guillotine

Charlotte Corday : the avenger of Marie Antoinette

Empress Josephine : the discarded wife of Emperor Napoleon

Hortense Bonaparte, Queen of Holland : a milliner's apprentice and a queen

Queen Louise of Prussia : a nation's immortal idol

Catherine de Medici : a royal dispenser of poisons

Madame Roland : priestess of the Revolution

Queen Victoria : the most splendid monarch of the nineteenth century

Countess Du Barry : the ruler of Louis XV

Countess of Blessington : an English saloniste

Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland : a type of vampire

Madame du Deffand : the blind ruler of a famous salon

Ninon de L'Enclos : a typical Parisian parasite

Madame Recamier : the beauty of the French salons

Marquise de Pompadour : the most splendid adventuress

Madame de Maintenon : the wife of a hunchback and of a king

Madame de Stael : the wit of French salons

Sarah Jennings : the Duchess of Marlborough : "the viceroy over Queen Anne"

Mlle de la Valliere : heroine of a royal romance

Theodosia Burr : whose fate is an unsolved mystery

Susan B. Anthony : a life-long champion of woman's rights

Elizabeth Cady Stanton : a wife, mother and eminent suffragist

Lucy Stone : a champion of liberty for slaves and for women

Julia Ward Howe : author of the Battle Hymn of the Republic

Florence Nightingale : the English soldier's angel of mercy

Clara Barton : the American Florence Nightingale

Frances E. Willard : the effective foe of intemperance

Anne Hutchinson : an early defender of free speech

Lucretia Mott : a Quaker preacher of freedom's truths

Mary Baker Eddy : the founder of a new faith

Harriet Martineau : the writer of political romance

Charlotte Cushman : America's most famous tragedienne

Nell Gwyn : "Pretty Nelly," the orange girl

Jenny Lind : "the Swedish Nightingale"

Madame Ristorie : "the Columbus of Italian dramatic art"

Mrs. Siddons : "the tragic muse"

"Peg" Woffington: "Queen of all hearts"

Sarah Bernhardt : a stage idol for fifty years

Adelina Patti : the queen of song

Louisa May Alcott : the "Jo" of "Little women"

Jane Austen : a brilliant chronicler of the commonplace

Rosa Bonheur : the friend and painter of animals

Elizabeth Barrett Browning : a poet and a poet's bride

Mary Ann Evans : "George Eliot," England's most famous woman novelist

Margaret Fuller : an inspired conversationalist

Charlotte Bronte : the creator of "Jane Eyre"

Harriet Beecher Stowe : the little woman who caused a big war

Madame Dudevant : the "George Sand" of French fiction

Madame de la Ramee : the "Ouida" beloved of school girls

Helen Hunt Jackson : the Indian's devoted friend

Mary Lamb : the gentle humorist's adoring sister

Frances Trollope : whose book on America enraged a nation

Martha Washington : the original "First Lady of the land"

Dolly Madison : the White House heroine of 1812

Joan of Arc : seer, soldier, leader of men, martyr.

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Harvard University.

OCLC:

463866734

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